Some guides on openrss.org may be helpful

Is this any different from how one starts to look as they grow older in age?

Anybody else hungry?

Yeah, will never understand why these big billionaires keep taking these “we are for the people” stances, but are still trying to spin up these same ol for-profit, centralized products. If they really cared, they’d use that money to help nonprofits or decentralized services and stay out of the damn way.

The Chinese have it right with the food too. Love me egg foo yung

And probably not as intentional as most people think it is vs just laziness and maybe a lack of planning.

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Yeah founder made an update here.

This is so mildy pedantic it’s adorable lol

Never understood the reason for RSS bots and communities like this when there are already a ton of services and rss readers that do this already. This just makes Lemmy more spammy since the posts in these communities get federated in every instance. It also pollutes Lemmy search results, making it harder for people who want to find real discussions.

Isn’t there already a comm called Drama? I’d just check it out to be nosy tbh

This is so true. It costs more money for the server power required for something like that to be pulled off.

There’s a comment in this thread going all crazy complaining about it being costly to host anything on the protocol to stop Bluesky from dominating it and everything. But im like “uhh yeah, servers and storage costs money”.

It’s just so weird how everyone thinks hosting popular sites should be free.

Right, and what’s even as bizarre to me (as an engineer) is that they’re bots posing as people.

That’s arguably the most deceptive and malicious way to use a bot on a site meant for real people.

But they’ll quickly block any helpful bots anyone else tries to integrate on the platform.

“Our bad bots good, your good bots bad”. What a crazy world we live in.

Yeah, depending on the branch I’ve found that method not to be too reliable. openrss offers branches for RSS feeds for commits on every branch though: e.g. https://openrss.org/github.com/octokit/octokit.rb/commits/main

Maybe Vimeo?

Signal app is great. Would that be a better alternative? Or is that too niche for Discord users?

Exactly what I was wondering the entire time I was listening. None of these questions were asked during the episode. A lot of handwaving and buzzword double-speak. She didn’t go into any real technical detail.

Sorry, that’s not what I meant. The AT protocol has been available since they began. So anyone could have built apps on it all this time. Federation isnt required for their protocol to be used.

I just haven’t seen any entirely working apps (made by non-Bluesky devs) using their protocol yet. And they totally ignored using or improving ActivityPub. So it comes off as their just kind of building their own thing, which is a centralized way of thinking.

They would’ve been better off building Blusesky on ActivityPub, an open protocol that’s already battle-tested and in use by a number of different apps and made my different developers. But building a whole new protocol that no apps are using has the same net effect as if a centralized company like Instagram Threads were to do it.

If you’re saying there are non-Bluesky apps using their protocol, can you link to these apps here in a reply? Totally open to being corrected.

Not the person you replied to. But I think they meant that Bluesky is using a protocol that only the company uses.

Sure its a federated and decentralized protocol, I guess. But if they’re the only platform using it, it’s still rather centralized in that regard.

News sites are better to consume via RSS feeds. Check out openrss.org that has feeds for a lot of websites. There are even RSS feeds for Mastodon and Lemmy.